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Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative
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- Creator
- Ruth Mackay
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- Language
- English
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- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814253636, 9780814213087, 0814274145, 0814213081, 9780814274149
- OCLC
- ocn945948382, ocn957127239
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-246) and index.
- "Down Down Down He Shot": Winsor Mccay's work, vertical collapse, and time in the modernist city -- Upton Sinclair's Vertical infernos: oil procurement and disaster culture -- "The horizon was an illusion": flight, escape, and imagining vertical space in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Terror/power: Allen Ginsberg's nuclear poetics and the space race -- Traversing vertical space: Philippe Petit's wire-walk, danger, and transformation -- Coda: Up and down stories